A common need on a Web page that contains a form is to reset it to the original state.
I think that some time ago many forms had a “reset” button, although now I see it being used less and less.
The reset button is an input
element with type="reset"
:
<input type="reset">
You can programmatically reset a form using JavaScript, too.
All you need is the form element reference:
const form = document.querySelector('form')
and then you can call the reset()
method on the it:
form.reset()
This will clear all the elements in the form, restoring them to the original state.